Department of Leadership
Our graduate students are innovative leaders, creative thinkers, and doers who are ready for the next step in their professional journey.
Take the next step in advancing your education or exploring a new path at Converse – a nationally recognized and regionally accredited doctoral university.
Master’s Degree
Postgraduate / Doctoral Program
Additional Resources
University Center of Greenville
Department News
2024 Converse Emerging Young Artists Juried Exhibition Accepting Entries
Converse’s Department of Art and Design will begin accepting entries for the 2024 Emerging Young Artists Juried Exhibition on December 1, 2023. High school students in grades 9-12 are invited to …
Ellen Bryant Voigt ’64 Publishes ‘Collected Poems’
Ellen Bryant Voigt ’64, MacArthur Fellow, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and former Poet Laureate of Vermont recently published a definitive collection of more than five decades of work. David Baker from …
Alumna Teaches Empathy Through Work with Immigrant & Refugee Families
Converse alumna Laurann Gallitto Patel ’09, ’15, has spent more than eight years supporting immigrant and refugee children and their families as they adjust to a new school life in …
Meet Our Faculty
Lee Givins
Assistant Professor of Education, Chair of Professional Leadership
Keshia Jackson Gilliam
Director, Master in Management; Director of Human Resources
Jeffery Martin
Assistant Professor of Education, Professional Leadership
Jack Knipe
Assistant Professor of Leadership
Lienne Medford
Dean of the Graduate School, Professor of Leadership
The Graduate School
Converse is a nationally recognized and regionally accredited doctoral university.
Office of the Dean
Lienne Medford
Dean of The Graduate School
864.596.9082
lienne.medford@ngskmc-eis.net
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